We are completely overwhelmed with the generostiy you’ve shown the
Ubuntu MATE project following the 16.04 LTS release. It is humbling indeed!

Many thanks to everyone who invested in the Ubuntu MATE project this
month. You have been generous as always and ensured that we can meet
all the costs associated with running the Ubuntu MATE project and the
community site. In fact, this month we are able to fund some developers
to work on Ubuntu MATE and MATE Desktop projects.

How will this months crowd funding be spent?

This months crowd funding will be used to pay for:

All Ubuntu MATE hosting and server costs for May 2016.

All the Ubuntu MATE CDN, bandwidth and email charges for May 2016.

Paid €1977 (taking into account currency variations) to 7 Open Source developers for working on Ubuntu MATE and MATE Desktop projects.

This brings Ubuntu MATEs total funding to other Open Source projects and developers to approximately $7287.90 (taking into account currency variations).

We will be reviewing how we can put the surplus funds from May to good use and expand our contributor rewards to finance some additional development activities.

Although Ubuntu MATE 15.04 onward is an official member of the Ubuntu
family, and new Ubuntu MATE releases are now distributed via the
Canonical mirror network, we are serving ~2000 downloads per day for
Ubuntu MATE for the Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3 and another
~95 downloads per day for Ubuntu MATE 14.04.

Thank you!

Supporting Open Source

Ubuntu MATE is comprised of many Open Source projects, we recognise
that. Each month that Ubuntu MATE has a surplus of funds we will make a
contribution to an Open Source project or developer that Ubuntu MATE
directly benefits from.

For May 2016 Ubuntu MATE have paid several Open Source developers
to work on Ubuntu MATE or MATE Desktop projects.